Hmm. I wonder...can you make it a sub-forum itself? By which I mean, each news/blog entry posts into that sub-forum as a new thread, which can be browsed, replied to, etc. I think that would be quite neat. It wouldn't clutter this main forum, but it would make a "constant activity" sub-forum which would both be a source of news and a place for discussion (via thoughts on the news).

Big topics, of course, would end up getting a thread here in the main forum, but all the little ones could just be discussed (or merely read) in that sub-forum.

We have the option to turn all Drupal posts and the comment threads into vB3 threads and post them into forums or subforums. The problem is that it makes the interface there much more complicated (have to choose which subforum every time you post there), and the Drupal commenting system has to be turned off.

There's also the issue that we're slurping all this content from these awesome sites, and the implied contract is we let people click on their links after reading part of their story and comment over there.

We've also had a SportsTicker news feed and tried posting that to forums, and people hated it. In practice...

As my excitement about the upcoming season builds I sometimes find myself searching out other tidbits of information about my favorite team. When I look past the newspapers I see that I am finding more and more people blogging about the Blazers than ever.

Channing Fryehttp://www.channingfrye.com/blog/
Channing is a funny guy and he has a nice website and many insightful blog posts on almost anything you can imagine. Also pics and a video clip every now and then.

Brandon Royhttp://www.broy7.com/roy/index
Portlands allstar has his own webpage and blog too. He even has a place where fans can send him questions they’d like answered.

Greg Odenhttp://www.yardbarker.com/users/gregoden
Our biggest Blazer has had his own site up for over a year. He posts regularly and keeps everyone up to date with what he has been doing, and even puts up an occaisional self made video.

Blazers Edgehttp://www.blazersedge.com/
No list of Blazers blogs would be complete without adding the blogs of Dave and Ben. They put something new up every day, and during the season offer detailed analysis of each game.